777 Partners / Whatever the hell you like

[The Hibbert Agenda]

While I do appreciate their effort, you do wonder how/why they can allocate all their time and resource exclusively to 777. What's the agenda?

i think their time and resources are limited - they're a small operation. And 777 and their clubs represent the biggest fish they can easily report on - these useless clowns have a mountain of evidence detailing their incompetency/criminality piling up in real time it seems.

my frustration is more at the PL not just scratching these guys out and forcing Moshiri to settle for other interested parties.

 

[Rooney_Tunes]

11am PL confirm Everton get 10 points reinstated
12pm PL confirm they've rejected 777 takeover
1pm Everton go into administration and are docked 9 points
2pm Dyche confirms 7 1st team players have D&V and can't play tonight but the PL reject their appeals for a postponement
3pm penalty to Liverpool
4pm Evertons 2nd charge is confirmed and they're docked 6 points
5pm time for tea
6pm Mcneil trips over his right leg and sprains his left foot and is ruled out for tonight
7pm team news reads like Evertons u9s have been selected to play Palace
8pm kick off
8:10pm stadium empties as Everton find themselves 3 down in the first 10 minutes and have 2 men sent off as Keane and Godfrey try to snap each other in half
9:50pm full time Everton 1-8 Palace
11pm another penalty to Liverpool

Bored?

 

[allen]

I'm all for exposing potentially crooked ownership of football clubs.

They've done amazing work exposing white label gambling sponsorship within football, of which we've been a 'victim' of, that other media outlets have dared not to look into.

Yeah, I’m really sure why people are so suspicious of investigative journalists investigating.

777 are majorly bad news, and they are working diligently to expose that. There’s huge kudos given to this kind of journalism in the profession. That’s motive enough.

 

[Tony’s Carp]

While I do appreciate their effort, you do wonder how/why they can allocate all their time and resource exclusively to 777. What's the agenda?

I guess if it’s nothing more sinister it’s probably the case that Everton stories do big numbers so they keep them coming. Some of their articles have been genuinely important and concerning but it’s felt like they are too determined to keep them coming even when they don’t really have any content to add (Josh Wander has a messy flat!).

That’s all in the game I guess, but as always you have to look at who gains from it all. So the nagging question would be who are the rival bidders, who obviously have a massive vested interest in 777’s bid failing, and until we know their identity and their connections we don’t know what part they may have in the games being played.

 

[GrandOldTeam]

i think their time and resources are limited - they're a small operation. And 777 and their clubs represent the biggest fish they can easily report on - these useless clowns have a mountain of evidence detailing their incompetency/criminality piling up in real time it seems.

my frustration is more at the PL not just scratching these guys out and forcing Moshiri to settle for other interested parties.

It's why I wonder how they can invest so much into Everton.

As I say, I appreciate it - I've consistently shared my view on 777 - it's just there's a "Hmm... is there an agenda I can't see at play here?"

Maybe it's just difficult for me to imagine they're so keen to protect Everton's interests.

I guess if it’s nothing more sinister it’s probably the case that Everton stories do big numbers so they keep them coming. Some of their articles have been genuinely important and concerning but it’s felt like they are too determined to keep them coming even when they don’t really have any content to add (Josh Wander has a messy flat!).

That’s all in the game I guess, but as always you have to look at who gains from it all. So the nagging question would be who are the rival bidders, who obviously have a massive vested interest in 777’s bid failing, and until we know their identity and their connections we don’t know what part they may have in the games being played.

That's my thoughts.

 

[maccavennie]

Bored?

Day off lol

 

[Ferguson1878]

Villa getting another wealthy minority investor in the form of the former Comcast CFO, now manages a US sports fund with $6bn assets. There's clearly other investors active with Premier League enquiries out there and this is another example of long term digital media ownership of sports 'franchises' increasing. Let's hope we are seeking those out and not hedging our bets on 777 only.

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European competition authorities have given the go-ahead for a new investor to take a stake in Luxembourg-based V Sports SCS, a limited partnership which had been wholly owned by Egypt’s richest businessman, Nassef Sawiris, and American billionaire Wes Edens. V Sports is the holding company of the Birmingham football club Aston Villa, which has European ambitions.

Aston Villa wants to return to the glories of Europe’s major football competitions. Like Peter White’s goal in the Champions League final against Bayern on 26 May 1982, followed by victory in the European Super Cup against Barcelona. Even if it means paying the price, which has not often been the case in modern times.
Owned since 2019 by a tandem of billionaires--Egypt’s richest businessman, Nassef Sawiris, worth $7.2bn (including a 6% stake in Adidas, shares in Holcim and in Madison Square Garden), and the American private equity investor Wes Edens, worth $3.4bn (including $0.5bn from the sale of the investment company he set up, Fortress Investment)--Aston Villa are slowly recovering from a period of financial disaster between 2016 and 2019, under the management of the Chinese entrepreneur Tony Xia. According to our calculations, the new owners have already injected more than €150m, plus debt, into the venture.

But that’s not enough to get back into the big league. That’s why they agreed to let a new heavyweight join them in the Luxembourg holding company that owns 100% of the club, V Sports SCS: Atairos, an American strategic investment company set up in 2016, which has more than $6.5bn at its disposal. Chairman and CEO Michael J. Angelakis was media giant Comcast’s CFO, named by his peers six out of eight years as the world’s best CFO. He sits on a number of boards, including that of the oil major ExxonMobil.
“Aston Villa is a historic football club with an exceptional management team and significant growth potential,” Angelakis stated in a press release announcing the deal on 15 December 2023. “We are strong believers in the long-term global growth potential of the Premier League and Aston Villa’s men’s and women’s teams. We are excited to bring our expertise in supporting businesses in the leisure, sports, and live entertainment industries to elevate the club to even greater heights.”
Under the terms of the agreement, Atairos will become a minority partner in V Sports and its capital investment will be used primarily to fund growth and infrastructure investments, with the aim of creating material and sustainable value for AVFC and the wider V Sports network over time.
The €458m consolidated in Luxembourg includes not only the 100% stake in Aston Villa, but also other smaller investments, including a stake in Portuguese football club Vitoria Setubal.

Aston Villa ffs they couldn’t afford their own cup final suits a few years ago

 

[jazzy]

It's why I wonder how they can invest so much into Everton.

As I say, I appreciate it - I've consistently shared my view on 777 - it's just there's a "Hmm... is there an agenda I can't see at play here?"

Maybe it's just difficult for me to imagine they're so keen to protect Everton's interests.



That's my thoughts.

Auclair is a serious football journalist and has produced some good stuff , primarily but not exclusively in relation to French and European football.

Brown ? I've no idea. Never heard of him apart from being a mate of the Esk?

 

[Benno]

This was in the Insurance press today about 777Re who are a reinsurance company owned by our friends at 777. This could be the first domino I would suggest and most probably a show stopper.

777 Re credit ratings downgraded further – what happened?

Company explains that it is working with a regulator to address concerns

www.insurancebusinessmag.com

 

[MIKE85]

...of the brown envelope sort???
Oh sorry - I meant unsolicited advance payments for possible future consultancy fees

Funny, one of the CAS judges had business dealings with the UAE. In a normal court, that would disqualify him.

 

[Moomin]

It's why I wonder how they can invest so much into Everton.

As I say, I appreciate it - I've consistently shared my view on 777 - it's just there's a "Hmm... is there an agenda I can't see at play here?"

Maybe it's just difficult for me to imagine they're so keen to protect Everton's interests.



That's my thoughts.

Maybe they have a mole within the 777 group who keeps feeding them information so they keep running with the story.

 

[Woolverhampton_Blue]

Wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt, but they’re clearly not suitable to run a football club, especially not one that already has significant off field problems. Needs squashing by Masters & Co asap, so that more suitable candidates can throw their hat in the ring.

 

[Librarian]

 

[maccavennie]

Probably just delivering another 20m, it's how Josh rolls

 

[Exeter_Gently]

The big fella